Famous Quotes & Sayings

Our role is to provide housing. It does not change. If it changes, then we go out of business. That was our pre-Carver Estates demolition goal, and that will be our post-Carver Estates demolition goal.

Our survey doesn't explain why. It gets down to being as simple as women have a better understanding of housing as a long-term investment. Single guys are more interested in consumption. They don't get serious about real estate until they meet the right woman.

Most of the real estate they own is well-located real estate. There's room in this market for more than one grocery store chain.

Steve Erickson

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.

Last November, we thought that 2004 was going to be the peak year for real estate excise tax, ... We were forecasting that the market would slow down in '05 and then more in '06. What we've seen so far is that 2005 has been, every single month, substantially stronger than in 2004.

People move to Riviera Estates for peace and quiet. And no kids.

Virginia Postrel

Some of the higher price of L.A. real estate does reflect the intrinsic pleasure of living there, as I'm reminded every time I walk out my door into the perfect weather.

Some of the growers are taking big hits and they're tired of it, and now they're seeing real estate pressure.

Many firms look at real estate as an alternative asset, but we think it's a fundamental holding.

Like summer friends, Flies of estate and sunshine

Kurt Fuller

I went to UC Berkeley. I graduated in 1976, immediately moved to L.A. with a degree in English - which did no more for you then than it does for you now - then sold real estate and did theater for nine years.

Our new app increases the exposure of Engel & Volkers' premier services and properties to the growing number of iPad users who are researching their real estate markets, locally and globally.

People have been talking, talking, talking about real estate as a way of getting rich.

Today the development has gained momentum as is evident from the jump in real estate prices.

Luis Garcia

Three hundred to 400 jobs were promised here. Where's the baker, (the) candlestick maker, grocery store, doctor, dentist, real estate agent? Where is all the new development?

Peter Jackson

The Tolkien estate owns the writings of Professor Tolkien. 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' were sold by Professor Tolkien in the late '60s, the film rights.

Jean Chatzky

Wills are trumped by legal titles to real estate or beneficiary designations on financial accounts, retirement plans and insurance policies.

Robert Parker

The 1997 Harlan Estate is one of the greatest Cabernet Sauvignon-based wines I have ever tasted.

Tom Kennedy

Those are real estate taxes you are talking about.

People at the seminars will learn about the tools of estate planning in the other topics. I'll provide a checklist of what they need to do once they get home to actually make those happen. They need to be able to walk away from this with everything they need to do this.

First, none of our interpretative letters has anything to do with real estate brokerage.

Right now there are a lot of houses for sale in Winchester, and the prices are level or going down from what I hear from real estate agents.

Rate-sensitive stocks, including real estate stocks, could be a focus a day after they were sold heavily.

Alan Johnson

Real estate was always No. 1. You can spend a lifetime just moving up the real estate ladder.

Real estate prices are so high and people of the low-income pay scale desperately need those public housing units. If they're proceeding cautiously because they do want to serve the population they serve, that's a good thing.

Real estate needs to raise the game. Technology is just starting to make inroads.

Real estate is running really slow right now, and we're probably going to see that stall for a while.

Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.

Real estate got so expensive, it made me nervous.

John Norquist

They should get the streetcar system back to where it was at the end of World War II. They'd see that real estate investment would follow, and they'd be able to rebuild a lot of the neighborhoods faster.

Alan's varied real estate experience will go a long way with helping us as we roll out our Justice stores, which is largely off-the-mall. He is familiar with the players, and he's got the inside scoop.

With real estate prices sky-high, it?s hard to come and live here. It?s expensive, but a lot of (Hispanic) people know that with the rise in population, there?s a lot of opportunity to start a business, and they jump on the bandwagon.

The residential real estate last year sold at auction, in live auction, was just over $14 billion.